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cheerish

cheerish adjective: cheerful.

Adjective

cheerish (comparative more cheerish, superlative most cheerish)

  1. (rare) cheerful
    • The sunny South develops a different view of life, a different literature and a different art from the lightless North. Here a clear smiling sky and a joyful disposition in a cheerish mind, […]1902, Light, volume 2, page 93
    • Did you give a cheerful greeting to the boy who came along, / Or a cheerish sort of "howdy" and then vanish in the throng?1930, Journal of Education, volumes 111-112, page 425

Forms of cheerish

comparativemore cheerish
superlativemost cheerish

Origin of cheerish

From cheer + -ish.

Words formed from cheerish

Questions about cheerish

What does cheerish mean?
Cheerish means cheerful.
What part of speech is cheerish?
Cheerish is an adjective.

Words near cheerish in the dictionary

  1. cheerio
  2. Cheerio effect
  3. cheerioh
  4. cheerios
  5. Cheerios effect
  6. cheerish
  7. cheerishness
  8. cheerlead
  9. cheerleaded
  10. cheerleader
  11. cheerleader effect

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